Increase Savings and Streamline Purchasing Operations with Amazon Business

To stay competitive in today’s market, small businesses need access to the same wide selection of products as their much larger competitors. Whether you are an established business or have a growing organization to support, you must be more innovative and resilient to get and stay ahead. And, chances are you need lots of different supplies – from your shop floor to your front office – but you don’t have time to hunt all over town for the best prices or reliable delivery options.

That’s why Amazon created Amazon Business. Businesses and organizations have different needs than individual buyers. With built-for-business tools and features, a wide selection of industry-relevant products, and the convenience and value you know to expect from Amazon, organizations of any size can simplify business buying to drive toward their next stage of growth. Signing up is easy and creating an account is free.

Unmatched Selection

Amazon Business empowers smart business buying, consolidating hundreds of thousands of suppliers in one place, with fast, free shipping on eligible orders. Navigating this vast selection is easy with the familiar Amazon user experience and dedicated mobile app – built specifically for business buying – allowing you to find competitive pricing on hundreds of millions of built-for-business products. So businesses like yours can procure everything from shop towels to printer paper to PPE supplies even while on the go.

With more than 75% of small business owners reporting rising cost of supplies, it’s critical to limit expenses to avoid having to raise prices based only on the cost of goods needed to run your business. But with business-only pricing and quantity discounts, your organization can save on over 50 million items, while flexible payment solutions help you earn rewards or extend payment terms to maximize cash flow. You can even help support other small businesses, because Amazon Business makes it easy to identify small, diverse, and local businesses and discover products with sustainability certifications.

Business Buying Simplified

Purchasing departments — especially in manufacturing settings, where the head of purchasing likely wears multiple hats and may have several roles in running the business — need tools that make it easy to set buying policies to navigate future challenges, optimize costs, and allow employees to self serve. With Amazon Business, you can control spend by managing permissions, setting budgets, and leveraging pre-built reports to track purchases.

Further, finding and vetting reliable, local, or certified diverse suppliers can be difficult and time consuming. With a vast network of suppliers, Amazon Business can help you build a cushion against the multitude of challenges you're probably facing as global supply chain disruptions become the new normal. Save even more with quantity discounts starting at two units, with pricing discounts up to five quantity tiers and opportunities to request special prices on even larger orders. Use Request for Quote for discounted pricing on high-volume single-SKU purchases (>$10K or >999 units), saving time on negotiations with sellers.

Tools to Grow Your Business

Adding employees or new locations can be exciting – and challenging. Maintain compliance with buying policies even as you add employees by creating lists of approved products available for purchase at the prices you’ve allowed. From there, Amazon Business can help you track purchasing behavior, identify buying trends, and discover new ways to save over time. As your procurement operation grows, our integrations – compatible with over 100 procurement, payment and ERP systems – grow with you, making it easy to build scalable purchasing processes, run reports, and audit your purchasing with automated reconciliation processes.

When you're ready to level up, get more with Amazon Business Prime. Small to medium businesses can choose from a variety of plans that give them greater insight into and control over their organizational spend using Guided Buying and Spend Visibility.

With more than six million customers, Amazon Business can help you buy smarter and dream bigger as you seek to digitally transform and diversify your supply chain. Learn more about how Amazon Business can benefit your business by downloading the Amazon Business 2023 Small & Medium Business Buying Guide.